View source for Killukin

{{more citations needed|date=January 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Use Irish English|date=January 2020}}
'''Killukin''' ({{irish place name|Cill Abhaicín}}),<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.logainm.ie/2083.aspx | publisher= Irish Placenames Database | website = logainm.ie | title = Cill Abhaicín / Killukin | accessdate = 2 November 2020 }}</ref> sometimes known as '''Killucan''', is a [[civil parishes in Ireland|civil parish]] in the [[Boyle (barony)|barony of Boyle]], [[County Roscommon]] in Ireland. It is located on the road from [[Carrick-on-Shannon]] to [[Elphin, County Roscommon|Elphin]] containing part of the market and post town of Carrick (with which it is connected by a bridge over the River Shannon). It is bounded on the north by the parish of Toomna, on the west by the parishes of Eastersnow and Ardcarne, on the south by the parish of Killummond, and on the east by the [[River Shannon]].
==Name==
Killukin, which derives from Cill-ibhicin in Irish and is pronounced Kill-Evickeen, relates to a church (or ''cill'') and a saint or person associated with that church. The saint seems to be the person whom the catalogue of the churches of the Diocese of Elphin calls Lunecharia and asserts to be venerated on 7 June in a certain chapel of the same diocese called Kill Lunechair which lies near the Episcopal See.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
The place possibly began as a hermitage in times soon after St. Patrick.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}  Local tradition claims that there was a monastic settlement in the field between Cordrehid Road and the graveyard road and a round tower.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{coord|53|56|0|N|8|06|30|W|display=title}}
[[Category:Civil parishes of County Roscommon]]
{{Roscommon-geo-stub}}